Is it an angel or a visual trick? The image sometimes gets much clearer in the darkened space of mind and the depths of the unconsciousness. The simple symmetry of the reflection could actually be a moment of self discovery of an alter ego, similar but at the same time completely different. The symbols are similar and familiar. The black and white, the visible and the invisible, the reality and the illusion combine in a third element – an asexual and disembodied spirit. Seeing his flight means that you have managed to escape even for a moment from the rational prose of the day.
Nina Kovacheva (born 1960) very often uses her own body, personal experiences as well as her own inner emotional world as objects of art. She has graduated the Academy of Art in Sofia in 1985. She is living and working in Paris. The stereotypical cultural taboos, the gender issues regarded as a process of self exploration are often included in her work which she represents by photos, installations, pictures, paintings and videos.
Nina Kovacheva has many independent exhibitions in museums and galleries in Paris, Vienna, Rotterdam, Bucharest, Sofia, Beijing, Poznan, Strasbourg, Shanghai, Quebec and others.
During her collaboration with Valentin Stefanov she makes some of the first major site-specific installations in the public space which transform the creative duo into an emblem on the contemporary art scene in Bulgaria.
Nina Kovacheva and Valentin Stefanoff have received the UNESCO award in 2002 for contributing to the development of the contemporary art, the award for contemporary Bulgarian art of M-Tel 2008 and others.

Freedom is disembodied, ephemeral, fragile and probably therefore so difficult to achieve. The aura of freedom can bring the instrument of death back to the ideal, to remove historical guilt and turn it into a clean polished invisible metaphor. And as freedom appears at first as an attitude and willingness to overcome stereotypes and subordinations, so her poetical monument can be understood only through a revolution in the mind.
Valentin Stefanoff (born 1959) craftily combines recognizable symbols and visual codes, transferring and rearranging their meanings into new senses. His art is positioned somewhere between the precise accuracy of the sign and the free routes of the intuition.
He has graduated the Academy of Art in Sofia in 1985. Since 1995 he is living and working in Paris. He has started his professional career as a graphist, later he directs himself to making installations and spatial works, in which main role play the video image, the reflections and the light effects.
Valentin Stefanoff has presented his works in centers of the contemporary art, museums, galleries in Paris, New York, Taiwan, Sofia, Shanghai, Belgrade and others.
Since the beginning of 1990 he works in collaboration with Nina Kovacheva. The two of them make many projects related to installations and screenings in the public space. Among theire works are: “Wet contact”(2002), .), “Phases of Accumulation and Extraction in a Limited Space” (2005), “Surplus Enjoyment” (2010,Taipei)